Travis Gordy writes; Edward McMorrow"s book' "The Educated Piano", copyrighted in 1989, has the following to say on page 92: "I remove and discard this strip of cloth from the hammer rail if present. Several Steinway tone regulators have told me that it helps damp the transmission of hammer impact noise into the rest of the piano. This sounds like a reasonable argument, but I have tested it several times and cannot hear any difference with or without the cloth. Besides, with the flange screw there to act as a conduit for noise energy, I don't see how this damping can work. . . Willis Snyder related years ago in one of his classes that Fred Drasch told him the cloth was not used because of the noise factor, but to help the flanges conform to the rail. vince mrykalo rpt mpt ba byu ut ha ha The older I get, the less I know ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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